Karmen Handel’s life growing up had been anything but quiet and simple. A deadbeat father, a mother who never wanted her, and a grandmother who could care less were the perfect recipe to ensure Karmen built a wall around herself and never let anyone in. When her past comes back to haunt her, Karmen has no one to help her. Until Nickel.

Complicated. Dirty. Restless.

Live to ride. Ride to live.

Nickel Cunningham lives free with the brothers he calls family and has never craved anything more until he met Karmen. The shy, quiet nurse who cares for his grandma caught his eye months ago, and he hasn’t been able to get her off his mind since. Nickel knows what he wants, but he’s never had to fight for it before. Until Karmen.

“You got plans tonight?” I was done chasing this chick. It was time to get straight to the point.

“Um…”

“You say that a lot, babe.”

“What?” she asked, confused.

“You say um a lot.”

“Oh, I guess I never noticed.” She stood there staring at me.

“Plans? You got any tonight?”

“Um.” She realized she said um again and blushed red, as her eyes darted down. “No plans.”

“You ever been to Shake the Lake?”

“Once, when I was seventeen. I didn’t get to see the fireworks, though.”

I reached out to grab my keys but grabbed her hand instead. “Come with me tonight,” I pleaded, our eyes locking.

She tried to jerk her hand out of my grasp, but I tightened my grip. “I can’t,” she insisted.

“Sure you can. You just told me you don’t have plans.”

“Um, I forgot that I have to go to…um…badminton practice,” she stuttered.

“Badminton practice?”

I didn’t think she could blush anymore, but her cheeks turned a dark shade of red, and she nodded yes. “I felt that I needed to broaden my horizons and figured that would be a good place to start.”

“Well, how about you broaden your horizon with me tonight, and you can pick back up with your badminton practice next week?”

Winter Travers is a devoted wife, mother, and aunt turned author who was born and raised in Wisconsin. After a brief stint in South Carolina following her heart to chase the man who is now her hubby, they retreated back up North to the changing seasons, and the place they now call home.

Winter spends her days writing happily ever afters, and her nights zipping around on her forklift at work. She also has an addiction to anything MC related, her dog Thunder, and Mexican food! (Tamales!)

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